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Email Virus is driving me mad!!!!!!!

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Posted by: Chanell

Can anyone help. My PC has some kind of email virus as I keep receiving the same email over and over again from the same senders!

I have AVG and Stinger installed, is there any other FREE software I can download or what do you think I should do as this is beginning to drive me mad!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

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Posted by: play2lose

it's not an email virus....lol.....it's spam, and it sucks

I don't know of any free software to help but I'll look around, sorry

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Posted by: Harper

That is spam.

Get yourself a copy of Outlook (not outlook express) and start adding people to your BLOCK JUNK MAIL list.


But while we are on the subject on email virus, you want to check to see if you MYDOOM on your computer system, do the following :-

[B]FOR mydoom.a[/B]
Go to the dos prompt, change directory to c: (later, to Z:\). In the dos prompt, type:
Dir shimgapi.dll /a /s (for detecting mydoom.A)

[B]FOR mydoom.b[/B]
In the dos prompt, type
Dir ctfmon.dll /a /s

If file is found, then you have virus, otherwise you are clean.

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Posted by: hilowe

Nah, it's not spam. The spam I get is the same message, different senders.

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Posted by: Harper

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by hilowe [/i]
[B]Nah, it's not spam. The spam I get is the same message, different senders. [/B][/QUOTE]

It still sound like spam to me. Everyday, I do get about at least 3 copies email with same message from completely different address offering me every thing from ***** enlargements, viragra, work from home schemes, loan and refinancing.

Any chance that you post up one of these messages please?

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Posted by: lo_tek

I tend to agree with the pack, hilowe, it does sound like spam. We all get it... mmmm, spam ;)

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Posted by: Chanell

Thanks for the replies.

I went to MS Prompt Silesia and it said file not found in C: drive but I couldn't get it done in Z:\ It said invalid drive specification!! I just aint a real whizz kid, so I'm probably doing something wrong. lol

I went to check my emails again and still have the same problem. Away to delete them!!

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Posted by: lo_tek

The reason it didn't find a Z: drive is because you probably don't have one. Some people have two drives, for example, so they are specified by different letters. Good to hear that you don't have the doom on C drive.

If you can't get your filters setup so as to block this constant email, perhaps a call to your ISP might give you some insight.

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Posted by: Chanell

Thanks lo_tek

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Posted by: lo_tek

anytime

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Posted by: Leprechaun

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Chanell [/i]
[B]Can anyone help. My PC has some kind of email virus as I keep receiving the same email over and over again from the same senders!

I have AVG and Stinger installed, is there any other FREE software I can download or what do you think I should do as this is beginning to drive me mad!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: [/B][/QUOTE]
Do you have a Firewall, because most of the newer one's now have spam blockers on it and email security, if not I recommend ZoneAlarm Pro v4.5

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Posted by: d125

I'm having the same problem. I know it's not spam (in my case, at least) because the messages are coming from friends who swear that they sent their email only once. It's just 2 emails in particular. None of the repeat emails have come from strange email addresses.

I have SpamDetective which lets me delete spam before I download it and I use Outlook after first checking my email with SpamDetective. I have Norton Antivirus and I ran a full scan yesterday, and it picked up a couple of viruses in my SpamDetective trash list (in spam emails that I never downloaded).

Norton deleted the emails from my trash list, but today I'm still having the same problem. I received multiple copies of the same exact 2 emails once again!

It's really making me crazy! It's so frustrating!

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